APIPA2025 - Instructor David

David House

David House serves as Special Agent in Charge (SAC) for Infrastructure Coordination for the Department of Interior’s Office of Inspector General (OIG). SAC House has served in a variety of roles with the OIG – he was the Assistant Special Agent in Charge for the Northern Region in St. Paul, MN; was Deputy Director for the Recovery Oversight Office; was a senior case agent in Hawaii, and was the Special Agent in Charge for the Central Region in Denver, CO. He served for several years as a Special Agent in Charge for the General Services Administration OIG in San Francisco, CA and before that, served as a US Army CID Agent for 12 years.

Throughout SAC House’s long tenure with DOI OIG, he has enjoyed working closely with tribes, territories, and Compact nations in the Pacific. He was instrumental in establishing the first capacity-building effort with audit offices throughout the Pacific, which led to several impactful investigations in both U.S. territories and Compact nations. SAC House provided many fraud training programs to audit offices over the years and was instrumental in establishing the first “Lakewood Experience” training seminar in Colorado.

As SAC Infrastructure Coordinator, David aims to use oversight of Bi-Partisan Infrastructure Law programs to reintroduce the Department of Interior OIG’s presence in the Pacific through a capacity-building initiative. David has a BA from Averett University in Business and he is a Certified Fraud Examiner.

Course Listing

TRACK D

This seminar will include a discussion of the components of a fraud investigation program, how to identify fraud, and what to do when you find it. We will discuss developing policy, clarifying your authority and budget, identifying staff and support. We will then discuss how to find fraud, by learning how to assess organizational vulnerability to fraud, how to build sources, how to be proactive, and give an overview of fraud schemes and what investigations of those schemes might look like in the wild. We will include classroom exercises and actual case discussion.

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TRACK A

The morning session builds on the initial Basic Investigation class by teaching advanced forensic accounting techniques to help investigators detect fraud through financial audits and investigate fraud by following the money. Participants will learn from investigative partners, participate in practical exercises to demonstrate new techniques, and learn the role of forensic accounting in proceedings, and criminal court.

The afternoon session will cover advanced documentation and investigative report writing. We will cover the importance of concepts such as writing for your audience, using plain language, active voice and bottom line up front (BLUF). Participants will learn the importance of effective report writing and how to write reports that help bring investigations to trial. Finally, we will have a panel discussion where we will discuss lessons learned during joint Federal-Territorial investigations.

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